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>>I was astounded at how good CDs and my system sounded. Now I have a modest vinyl setup, Thorens TD 125 w/ a Grado TLZ and a Technics SL 1200 and Zu DL-103 but most of the LPs I have sound pretty good but the Cary, sounds better.<<

Unlike a very good CDP, many a turntable, esp. w/entry level turntable/arms/carts are hamstrung trying to reproduce the extended frequencies properly. Sometimes the differences are eye-opening, in terms of understanding the TRUE potential of your vinyl rig. In that light, my CDP performance forced me to improve my turntable in response.

That said, I'm very much aware of digitals sonic limitations (and analogs limitations) in comparison. Fed the best mastered software, top vinyl SHOULD outperform the Cary (which I've heard) but it wouldn't come cheap (and very dependent on setup & experience).

The overall problem I have with digital is the limited amount of high quality, non limited/compressed music + the CD format took years to mature sonically. It wasn't until 1998 that I first heard a CDP really sing. Actually, that was when I first realized redbook could in fact reproduce the freq.extremes properly, which I didn't think possible based on EVERY cdp I'd heard prior.

But considering the majority of crappy mastered/sounding CD's, it didn't take long within most audiophile circles, to generally blame all "redbook" as inferior to vinyl. That was perhaps true 18 years ago ...

tb1


Edits: 03/13/15
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